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The Story of Kullervo is a collection of several texts, including a prose version of the Kullervo cycle in Elias Lönnrot's Karelian and Finnish epic poem Kalevala, written by J. R. R. Tolkien when he was an undergraduate at Exeter College, Oxford, from 1914 to 1915.
Kullervo is the subject of a 1988 opera by Aulis Sallinen. [1] Kullervo is also the subject of a symphonic poem composed in 1913 by Leevi Madetoja. [1] In 2006, the Finnish metal band Amorphis released the album Eclipse, which tells the story of Kullervo according to a play by Paavo Haavikko. The play has been translated into English by Anselm ...
The Kalevala (IPA: [ˈkɑleʋɑlɑ]) is a 19th-century compilation of epic poetry, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology, [1] telling an epic story about the Creation of the Earth, describing the controversies and retaliatory voyages between the peoples of the land of Kalevala called Väinölä and the land of Pohjola and their various protagonists ...
[T 1] He started reworking the story of Kullervo into a story of his own in 1914, but never finished it. [T 5] However, similarities to the story can still be seen in the tale of Túrin Turambar. Each is a tragic hero who accidentally commits incest with his sister, who, upon finding out, kills herself by leaping into water.
The piece tells the story of the tragic hero Kullervo, with each movement depicting an episode from his ill-fated life: first, an introduction that establishes the psychology of the titular character; second, a haunting "lullaby with variations" that portrays his unhappy childhood; third, a dramatic dialogue between soloists and chorus in which ...
The Story of Kullervo: A retelling of a 19th-century Finnish poem that Tolkien wrote in 1915 while studying at Oxford. [155] 2017: Beren and Lúthien: One of the oldest and most often revised in Tolkien's legendarium; a version appeared in The Silmarillion. [156] 2018: The Fall of Gondolin
Lemminkäinen is the subject of the four-part "Lemminkäinen Suite" by Jean Sibelius, and of an overture by Väinö Haapalainen [], both of them Finnish composers.Parts of the story of Lemminkäinen and Kullervo are used by Elizabeth Goudge (1900-1984) in her 1938 play Suomi, one of her Three Plays: Suomi; The Brontës of Haworth; Fanny Burney (Gerald Duckworth, 1939).
The story, as already published in The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales, is mainly based on the legend of Kullervo, a character from Elias Lönnrot's compilation of Finnish folklore poems, the Kalevala. Tolkien drew inspiration from the Kalevala for "The Story of